April 24, 2016

 This morning I was laying in bed reading a textbook when all of a sudden a spider came around the edge of the textbook and started walking across the page. I slowly got up and tried to go for the cup I use to catch spiders but as I stood up the book flopped a little and the spider disappeared. I got down to look for it but it was gone. My biggest question is how the spider got on my book in the first place. I think I was holding it up from the blankets the whole time which would mean it had to crawl up my arm to get to the book. Or it rappelled from the ceiling and managed to land on the backside of my book. Or maybe my book had touched the blankets at some point and the spider just climbed on up after traversing what to it must have seemed like quite mountainous terrain. Basement life. Where cups dedicated to the capture and release of spiders are a must.

After the reading and spider catching I got on the computer and reviewed my conference proposal. I think I might have made a minor change. Throughout the day I kind of worked on the group project but didn't make much progress. I got hung up on trying to figure out how many computers we would need to buy for an academic library serving 20,000 students. I wasn't sure if I should go with a ratio based on the number of students or if I should try and come up with the number of computer labs, random computers throughout the library, and staff computers. The plan now is to go through the technology list I came up with and get individual prices. Then the guy I'm working with on the technology portion can come help come up with total units needed.

I was going to do that tonight after dinner but got sidetracked by a tornado warning. Or a watch. Whichever one means a tornado has been seen. There wasn't one in my town but one was spotted not too far away so we spent some time hanging out with the dogs in the basement just in case. I could have kept working on school stuff but instead I watched the weather guy on TV and then listened to the weather guy on the radio when the TV cut out, while reading the beginning of the Spencerian penmanship book.

Going back to dinner for a second. We ordered pizza from Papa John's and it took almost an hour and a half to be delivered. Even though the street we live on has been around for almost two years now it hasn't been added to Papa John's map. They have the street across the street, which has the same name but it is a court instead of a circle. This was confusing to the guy taking the order though and my mom had to say the name of the street at least five times. She even spelled it out twice. After over an hour of waiting she called to see if it was coming and they said it was out for delivery. Not long after that the delivery person called and said they had either delivered the pizza to a different address or they were looking for a different address. The number was right but the street name was wrong. My mom again said the name of the street a couple times and about ten or fifteen minutes later it finally showed up. In the end it wasn't the delivery person's fault because the address on the pizza box said the street the delivery person had gone to. Someone, after being told five times and having it spelled out twice, the person taking the order had put down the wrong street. And I can't figure it out because the names didn't sound or look alike. That is probably the last time for that we order from Papa John's in a really long time.

After dinner, before the storm stuff, I read over my proposal one last time and submitted it. We ended up not losing power or the internet during the storm but if we had I would have gotten my assignment submitted just in time. So I'm pretending it is impressive.

Now I'm going to bed because it is midnight and I have to wake up for work in the morning. It doesn't mean we won't have testing but at the moment we don't have anything scheduled for tomorrow. I need to continue working on the yearbook but I also wouldn't mind getting a start on finding prices for my group project. I want to have that all done by tomorrow and posted so I can get some feedback from the group. There are also a couple jobs I want to apply for, so maybe I can start writing the cover letters or at least turning my resume into a CV. Years ago I had a CV but I have no idea where that ended up and it probably wasn't that good. I've got the resume/CV writing workshop next weekend but who knows how long the job listings will be open so I would prefer not to wait.